10.0 Transitioning Windows Users to Linux or Macintosh

When users move from Windows workstations to Linux or Macintosh, they first need to install the appropriate client, as described in the GroupWise Installation Guide for your version of GroupWise:

Users can then immediately use the Linux or Mac client to connect to their GroupWise® mailboxes, regardless of whether the mailboxes reside on Linux, NetWare®, or Windows servers.

If users have Caching mailboxes or archives on their Windows workstations, they can simply copy them to an appropriate location on their Linux or Mac workstations, and then update the file location information in the Linux client (Tools > Options > Archive Directory and Caching Mailbox Directory) or the Mac client (GroupWise > Preferences > Archive Directory). On Mac, your Caching mailbox is always stored in /Users/username/gwcache.

NOTE:Remote mode is not currently supported in the Linux or Mac client, so Remote users should not copy their Remote mailboxes to Linux or Mac.

For a comparison of feature availability between the Linux and Mac clients and the Windows client, see the Novell GroupWise Comparison Web page.